Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a street scene in Tonopah, Nevada, ca.1903. A horse-drawn carriage, fully loaded with equipments and tools, moves across a handful of bystanders who are lounging in front of a building (hotel?) in the foreground. Crowds of people are moving about on this busy street. Legible signs include: "a nice [...] bed, $7.50 a month, 50¢ a night", "Butler meat market, Gunter & Thomas", "fruit store", "White's Hotel", "Jerry Ahern, general merchandise", "Merchants Cafe now open", "saloon".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : photonegatives, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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